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Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 1251

“…And who might you be?” asked Gerald as he looked casually at her.

‘Smacking someone on the head as a greeting… I wonder if she’s lost her marbles…’

After seeing Yana actually smack Gerald on the back of his head, Georgia and the others instantly began trembling in fear. Quickly snapping out of it, all those from Georgia’s family—as well as the guests—quickly ran over and stood behind Yana.

“Are you really still pretending in front of me, Gerald?” asked Yana.

“Pretending? Do we even know each other?” replied Gerald in resignation. He truly had no idea who she was.

“Haha! So that’s how it’s going to be! Maybe this little refresher will help! Let me ask you something. Did you study in Third Primary School in Serene County as a kid?” sneered Yana.

“That I did… Though I’m curious as to why you’d know that…” replied Gerald with a nod.

“Hah! And did you study in the second class in third grade?” added Yana.

“…I did, indeed…” said Gerald, sensing that something was wrong. After all, everything that she had just said was true. Throughout his six years in that primary school, Gerald had always been in the second class.

‘Really though, who is this woman? Why would she even know which class I studied in?’

“Aha! See, grandma? What did I tell you? It truly is him!” shouted Yana in delight.

Having witnessed the scene play out with her very own eyes, Georgia’s meekness turned into hostility as quickly as a flip of a page.

As the old woman continued seething in contempt, Gerald looked at Yana with suspicion in his eyes as he asked, “…Again, I have to ask, who exactly are you?”

“Are you still playing dumb? I’m Yana Shute, of course! Humph! I was transferred over to your pathetic school when I was in third grade and ended up becoming your class monitor! I still remember how poor you were, even to this very day! If you still need a refresher, I’m sure you haven’t forgotten about the incident where a boy stole something from me and placed the blame on you! As a result, I poured water all over your face and I even told my dad to send people over to stop you from leaving! You were so scared back then that you didn’t even dare to go to school for a few days after that!” replied Yana contemptuously.

‘…Yana Shute…?’ Gerald thought to himself as the memories of her slowly returned to him.

As she had said, Yana had transferred into his class out of the blue back when he was in third grade. Back then, everyone was afraid of her since not only was she the class monitor, but she also wore the best clothes among her classmates. With so much power, she definitely didn’t have a high regard for Gerald at all.

Regardless, she had left a rather deep impression on him for the longest time due to a certain incident that involved one of their classmates stealing her eraser. The eraser itself was extremely beautiful—at least to a child—and the one who had stolen it placed the blame on Gerald!

Due to that, the young Yana had grown anxious and—without thinking too much about it—ended up splashing Gerald’s face with water!

Though that sounded harmless on the surface, Yana had failed to mention that the incident had taken place during winter. With that in mind, the water was actually scalding hot when it splattered over Gerald’s face! In a way, it could be said that she almost ended up ruining his face for good!

Anyway, while it was true that Gerald hadn’t gone to school for a few days after that, it wasn’t out of fear. Instead, it was because Gerald had to allow his face to heal after getting some medicine from a clinic.

At the time, he remembered truly resenting her a lot.

Either way, she transferred to another school when they were in fifth grade. With Yana out of the picture, Gerald slowly forgot about her.

‘Still, what a small world this is… Why do I keep bumping into classmates? To think that I’m actually meeting classmates from my primary days!’ Gerald thought to himself with a bitter smile on his face.

“…So it’s you. I remember you now…” replied Gerald with a slight nod.

“‘I finally remember you now?’ Gerald, are you seriously still trying to play a fool before me? I have to say that I’m quite impressed with how great your acting skills have become after not meeting you for so long! Still, how dare you impersonate Mr. Crawford?” said Yana as her eyes turned stern.

“…What? Impersonating Mr. Crawford?”

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Undoubtedly shocked by Yana’s claim, everyone turned to look at her in disbelief.

“Don’t buy into his act, everyone! I, for one, know for a fact that this isn’t the real Mr. Crawford! His name is Gerald and he comes from some village in Serene County! He was also an extremely poor loser back when he was young! If you need proof, I’ll get someone to find his photograph in the past, right this instant! All of you will surely believe me after that!”

The photograph she was referring to was a group photo that had been snapped while they were still schooling together. Yana had a habit of keeping photos of herself, and it wasn’t long before one of her men brought that exact photo over.

Showing it to everyone, they all saw that the photograph truly did show a young Gerald in it!

“So he really is Miss Shute’s primary school classmate! What more, he was wearing such shabby clothes back then!”

As everyone remained momentarily shocked, Georgia laughed loudly before saying, “My, my, Serenity! It’s beyond my expectations that you’d actually stoop so low! You were so full of energy back then… I’m well aware that you’re sad that Mila’s gone missing. What more, the real Mr. Crawford probably doesn’t even care about any of the Smiths anymore! While I get that you desperately wish to gain respect in the business field again—since you’re so helpless now—there’s a limit to how low you should go, you know? We’re already this old, Serenity. Was there truly a need to pull off such a dirty trick?”

Hearing that, the guests immediately grew scornful. Those who had initially been trying to toast and get close to Gavin quickly began leaving in disdain, their smiles instantly turning into frowns.

“Impersonating? Stooping this low? Georgia, you’d best watch your mouth! I don’t know what you’re thinking, but he truly is the real Mr. Crawford!” retorted Serenity.

“You’re still being stubborn now? Look, I’m fine with the idea of you hiring someone to impersonate Mr. Crawford, just to gain a little respect. However, you should’ve at least hired someone who’s as handsome as my grandson-in-law! Why’d you have to get someone who looks like this?” said Georgia as she laughed aloud.

“Grandma’s right! Did you honestly think that hiring such a poor loser was a good idea? He barely even gives off the aura of someone as powerful as Mr. Crawford! Still, Mila this, Mila that… All you Smiths ever talk about is Mila! To think that you’re all still hoping for Mr. Crawford to give two hoots about you even after she’s been missing for so long! Do all of you think that Mila’s a fairy or something?” added Yana, hints of jealousy in her voice. After all, her husband had once proposed to Mila as well.

“I don’t know what’s gotten into you, but you’d best not talk about Mila like that, Yana!” growled Gerald.

“Hah! You may not want me to do so, but I’m doing it anyway! Both the old and the young from the Smiths are shameless! To think that all of you would dare find such a poor loser to impersonate Mr. Crawford! Are all of you that keen on disgusting us?!” scowled Yana as she turned to glare at Rita.

Rita herself got up in a rage and retorted, “The hell are you calling shameless? You’re the shameless one!”

With that, she walked over to Yana and pushed her slightly for verbally abusing her family so much!

Of course, Yana had never been treated this way, and the young lady was quickly filled with immense rage. Raisin her hand to slap Rita, Gerald quickly stepped in and grabbed onto Yana’s wrist before shaking her off!

“You… How dare you hurt me?!” roared Yana, her eyes widened so much that they looked like they were going to pop out at any second.

“How extremely daring you are, Gerald… Who the hell do you even think you are?! You’re just some loser impersonating Mr. Crawford! Do you actually think you’re him now?!”

‘If I had been humiliated by a powerful person, I’d certainly feel honored! However, since such a lousy person like you is doing it, the humiliation is twofold!’ Yana thought to herself as she continued seething in rage.

Nobody there had thought that the country boy would actually dare to treat Yana like that!

“Harm you? I was merely protecting Rita. Also, don’t you think you’ve crossed the line a bit too much today, Yana? Don’t you plan on leaving some leeway for yourself? I’ll have you know that I won’t let anyone do anything to those from the Smith family as long as I stand here today. Speak rudely one more time and I won’t hesitate to beat you up for real!” growled Gerald.

“Hahaha! You’re still pretending? What a joke! You’ve already hurt me yet you say you’re still going to beat me up even further? I’d like to see you try-”

Before her sentence could even end, a loud slapping sound could be heard.

Everyone there knew the kind of person Yana’s father was, and it was exactly because of that, that all of them were now completely stupefied.

Looking like a madwoman, Yana shouted, “You… You dare?! You f*cking beggar! You actually dared to slap me?! It’s all over for you! Guards! Get in here right this instant! I want all of you to beat him up till he’s nothing but pulp! If anything happens my uncle will take care of it!”

Following that, a group of security guards quickly surrounded Gerald, each of them holding onto batons.

Yana herself was now cupping her hurt cheek as she glared daggers at Gerald. It almost seemed as though she wasn’t going to be able to release all her resentment until both of Gerald’s legs were broken today.

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Before any of the guards could make a move, however, the receptionist—who had been sitting by a table at the entrance this entire time—suddenly shouted, “A guest has sent over prestigious gifts for Lady Serenity from the Smith family!”

Upon hearing that, everyone immediately fell silent. While Yana and the others simply exchanged glances of dismay, Georgia found herself trembling as all of them slowly turned to look at the entrance, slight curiosity reflected in their eyes.

What on earth was happening? Prestigious gifts from a guest? And they were for the old lady of the Smith family of all people! Given the ‘prestigious’ part of the gifts, it was clear that whatever the guest had sent over, they were most definitely greater than any of the previous presents that the other guests had gifted Georgia. After all, gifting someone with a prestigious present was far from a common practice.

While it was obvious that the gifts themselves would definitely be of great value, the more important thing was that for a person to be able to hand out such gifts, they most definitely had to have an extraordinary status and identity.

They were all so sure about this since rules of gifting had already been present from ancient times. Essentially, if a person simply presented an ordinary gift, the receptionist was to only mark it down in the entry. If the gift was a large one, the receptionist would then have to stand before expressing their gratitude on behalf of their master. However, if a prestigious gift was presented, not only did the receptionist have to stand up, but they even needed to declare the gift’s presence loudly!

Even if a prestigious gift were to be sent over without the one gifting being present, the receptionist was still expected to follow the rules and declare the gift’s presence.

With that in mind, those from the Sier family continued looking at the entrance in amazement. Yana herself—whose anger had peaked from the slap just minutes ago—found her rage momentarily suppressed.

However, she quickly snapped out of it. Still cupping her face, she then sneered, “How absolutely shameless… To think that you’d actually send gifts over to yourselves while attending the Sier family’s birthday party! It’s obvious that you’re the senders! After all, doing so would disallow my grandma to continue ridiculing you! Aren’t I right?”

“I’ll have to agree with Yana on how shameless you’ve become, Serenity… While it’s true that I treated you as a rival in the past, your unbearable hypocrisy makes me ashamed to even admit that now! Have you lived so long that you’re now able to do just about anything?” scowled Georgia as well.

As the guests turned to look at the Smiths with eyes reflecting greater disdain than before, Yana sneered, “Very well then! I’d like to see for myself what this poor loser is capable of presenting to all of you! Haha!”

Hearing that, the guards simply looked at each other before holding their breaths like everyone else already was. Nobody could deny that all of them were both nervous and curious as they waited for the receptionist to announce what the gifts were.

first gift is a

“…W-what…?”

set consisted of only the highest quality jewelry. What more, a set

of brilliant and radiant traditional

everyone instantly felt their jaws drop, the receptionist added, “Third is a

“The f*ck?!”

list went on, every passing gift made the guests feel more and more frightened. Eventually, the receptionist had only one final gift to

the last gift, a luxury villa worth forty million

“…W-what…?!”

the hairs on their body standing on end. After all, none of the gifts that the receptionist had read out cost any less than a million and five hundred thousand dollars. As if that wasn’t already magnificent enough, to think that the final gift was a luxury villa worth that much! It was impossible for there not to

was simultaneously

was the one who had sent those gifts? And are they even real in the first place?! Forget the Smiths, nobody here is capable of presenting

were still eighteen gifts. Together, they racked up to a grand total of

there was simply no way

by the announcement of the prestigious gifts, she quickly regained her wits before looking

that, the guests instantly burst into laughter. However, their smiles soon disappeared as everyone heard a familiar droning. Looking up

touching down, a group of

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that the receptionist had earlier announced! As for the most expensive gift—that being the forty million dollar villa—it

possible…?” muttered Georgia to

of the gifts!” said one of the bodyguards after walking toward Gerald

be showing it to grandma

wasn’t able to attend, these are my gifts

eyes widened in shock as they

the guards calling Gerald, Mr. Crawford, and this included Yana. Now feeling completely stunned, Yana and the others could barely believe it as they turned to face

no way it could be him… Yeah, he’s just some poor loser from a small county in Mayberry! Any gift from

refuse to believe this!” yelled Yana as she quickly rushed over to check whether the items the

of them, Yana found herself gulping

the real deal… None of them are

whether the gifts were actually real. To her dismay, all of them were

could any of

astonished expression on her face as she said, “…Gerald… How could you

the regards from both me and Mila!” replied

Gerald mentioned that the gifts were the regards from him and Mila, Serenity knew that Mila had always been in Gerald’s heart.

even after such a long time, Gerald still missed and showed concern for her.

found, even though she knew full well that the

peace, even if she were to pass away before Mila was found. After all, even if her granddaughter had a hard life, Serenity now knew that there

of these feelings had stemmed from receiving all those valuable and prestigious gifts. Serenity wasn’t that kind

a daze. Not only was she feeling deeply humiliated, but she had also offended Mr. Crawford

all this had happened. Nobody dared

been insightful enough to know who you were, and it’s completely our fault for being so ignorant! Please, please forgive our family! Justin! You and the

to survive long after offending Mr. Crawford, Justin instantly fell, quickly tugging on

everyone’s surprise, however, Yana suddenly began laughing

still be nothing but a poor loser! There’s just no plausible way that you could ever turn out to be Mr. Crawford of Mayberry! The man with near-endless wealth! If you truly are him, then

over to him. After wiping his mouth, he simply turned to glare at the insufferable woman before saying, “There’s

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behaved today. It was also because of that reliance that she had no idea how terribly she was going to

previous sentence in a way that warned her that she wasn’t the only one capable and powerful in the world. In fact, there

the Sier family members themselves were now so frightened that

party had long lost its meaning and after a short while,

taken place for that long, Serenity felt like she had just experienced a roller coaster of emotions. Quite literally as well. By the time the Smiths stepped out of Georgia’s villa, the old woman

home, her limbs suddenly went numb! Feeling extremely dizzy by this point, Serenity could no longer endure the headache— that she had been experiencing for a while

know that all this was happening. He had parted ways with the Smiths upon exiting the villa earlier since he wanted to check on the

digging process. After all, from what he had been told, excavation of the inner part of the mountain had been rapid and things were going much faster than initially expected. For all he knew, the Zircobsite could very well be located

themselves momentarily panicking. However, this wasn’t the first time they had seen this happening to Serenity in the past two years, so they quickly calmed themselves again. The good thing was that their home wasn’t too far off by now. The bad thing was that Serenity’s

immediately hooked Serenity up to a machine

and called him

himself was a sixty-year-old doctor in the military region who

to work as a professor in a hospital instead. Given his capabilities, he ended up quickly getting the role of vice

woman—the trio bumped into Gerald who had come over

parties simply nodded at each other in

were all panicking. After enquiring what all the fuss was about, Gerald finally learned of what

her way home earlier. It was also at that moment when Gerald realized that the trio who had entered with him were doctors that had been called over to have a look

bad, so I’ll go have a look at her first!” said Gerald who could already tell that there was

he hadn’t revealed that he was aware of it since the timing wasn’t right, Gerald was certain that he could

Top Villa—just to

any of the Smiths could reply to Gerald’s question, however, Jace’s male apprentice—who was standing behind his master and looked to be around thirty—coldly shouted, “Hold it! How insolent you are! Can’t you see that my master is here? Are you trying to make a fool

“There’s no need to behave this way, senior! From what he

though he was much too worried about his grandmother’s illness to be concerned with the male apprentice’s earlier taunts. Choosing

illness. As it turned out, the illness had been present for quite some time now, and the old lady would suffer from it from time to time. The Smiths discovered a pattern where every time she had an

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Smiths had also met up with others to attempt to treat the illness, none of them had been able to produce any substantial results. It was around then when they came across the incredibly skillful Dr.

family even got to know both of Jace’s apprentices a bit better. The man—who was around the age of thirty—went by the name of Walbridge Lumb. As

that Dr. Mabb had already made multiple visits before this,

grandma first. Though all of you needn’t be too

he had already been hostile from the moment Brianna had

said that the illness wasn’t anything major when even the master hasn’t

be too arrogant, young man,” said Walbridge with a slight frown, clear

of you studying medicine before…” added Helen who truly didn’t

that he was a master in all other skills as well. While those from the Smith family were willing to believe in Gerald’s words, the risks involved were simply too

hesitation was sound and they truly didn’t mean anything else, Gerald simply shook his head with a slightly bitter laugh. Truth be told, he had already mastered three religions and nine schools of

all, they knew little about what had happened to him

saved the chit-chat for later and began walking toward

entered. Noticing that Gerald was also present, Rita flashed a smile at him before saying, “So

Zeigler… And Gerald… I’m glad to have all of you here… Getting… straight to business, I’ve already been sick for two years now, Dr. Mabb… While it only attacks occasionally, every time it happens, it gets more and more serious… Despite me saying ‘occasionally’, it’s happening way

as well, which was why she was only looking at Jace as she explained her recent conditions

short while, the attacks usually return for another four to five times before finally stopping. I’ll be frank and say that I can’t bear it anymore…!” added Serenity

truly an odd illness, master’s finally managed to gain some results from his investigation efforts. We’ll have you look at it now! I assure you that master’s findings are much better compared to the nonsense some people who lack self-awareness are capable of

my check-up now… I’ve already seen several other doctors, and none of them had been able to diagnose anything wrong with me until my

see. Right, right!” replied Walbridge slightly awkwardly as

could you treat it immediately,

simply remained

need to be impatient, grandma… Let’s just wait for an hour and five minutes

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I don’t think I’ve mentioned when the next attack was going to be, have I? How’d you make such an accurate guess, Gerald?”

excess heat in the body is going to cause disruptions within your blood circulation and respiratory system, both of which contribute to causing migraines,” replied

nodding approvingly at Gerald as she said, “I hadn’t

had been standing at the side—simply sneered, feeling

while thinking, ‘…Could this young

and laughing cheerily before this—suddenly portrayed an extremely pained expression on her face sometime around noon. Seconds after that, she began holding onto

as he stretched his hand out to check her pulse. Following that, he

few acupuncture points on her body, followed by points on her head

that, Gerald was

had so much reputation within the military

of which, mister, are you aware

master? How on earth would he even know?”

it shows that Gerald is quite an insightful

Acupuncture Therapy,” said Gerald as he looked at the doctor

fact that Gerald had

Jace then said, “Humph. Not bad. It seems that you truly are

pain seemed to have eased

so long, the results are finally here!”

flatter me,” replied Jace with a

her initial eased expression turned into roars of pain as she began holding onto her head again! She was now

became stunned, especially Jace. Looking at his silver needles, he muttered to himself, “This…

pale by this point, the doctor could feel the old lady’s pulse beating at random intervals, even stopping for several seconds at a time before rapidly

Smith family as they anxiously ran over to him the

go from pale to a purplish-green, Gavin’s anxiety peaked and he was now jumping in

in disarray. After all, he truly had no idea what to even do at this